THE UNLOVED

Deep in the reomte French countryside, an elegant group of tourists celebrate Christmas in a rented château. But their leisure time is rudely interrupted by a body. An English woman has been murdered and Tatiana, the unloved child, claims she knows who did it. The murderer is amystery, but a search for the truth will lead to many more disturbing mysteries of the human heart: insatiable rage, sadistic desire, colonial violence. Underneath the hedonism of these wealthy lives, a savage dissatisfaction is smouldering. The unloved and the unloving areperpetual bedfellows in this mesmerizing early novel from the twice Man Booker-shortlisted author of the Hot milk and Swimming Home.